South Euclid Democracy Day

South Euclid Democracy Day

In November of 2016, South Euclid voters passed an ordinance which was a response to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision in 2010 that established corporate personhood and deemed money as an expression of free speech. Citizens will have the opportunity to speak uninterrupted on any topic having to do with the Constitution, money in politics, corporate influence on social/environmental/political policy, the concept of corporate personhood, writing of legislation by corporate lobbyists, state budgets which effect local spending, or any other topic which influences our democratic principles. A summary will be sent to our state and congressional legislators calling for an amendment to the US Constitution declaring that only human beings, not corporations are legal persons with Constitutional rights and money is not the equivalent of speech.